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fist.sensei -> RE: is dating a unbeliever sinful? (3/19/2008 10:08:44 AM)
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ORIGINAL: bluestone
You always run the risk of falling in love with someone you date, which would lead to marrying an unbeliever, which would be sin.
Let me guess, 2 Cor 6:14... taken out of context that is. I'll 'borrow' another post from a topic a while back that goes a bit deeper into these verses:
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A yoke is a chain or bond. There is a yoke or bond (note the singular form) by Christ. That yoke is the Holy Ghost - the Bond of perfection. He carries the perfect (complete) weight of all things of God, which things are also of eternal life, and works them out in righteousness. All things of life are weighted.
An unbeliever does not have that yoke of Christ. He is yoked by another spirit from Satan who works out the things of death in unrighteousness. The things of death by Satan are also weighted and their weights are not equal to the weight of glory/grace of God in Jesus Christ/men.
2 Corinthians 6:14 declares:
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Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness.
"Ye" above means believers: A believer should not have two unequal yokes residing together in his/her body (that is the temple of God); one of Christ as is given to believers and the other of Satan as with all unbelievers.
Why?
It is because within the very body of the believer (that is the temple of God), righteousness from the yoke of Christ (which is by weighted things of life worked out by the Holy Ghost) cannot have fellowship with unrighteousness from the yoke of Satan (which is by unequally weighted things of death work out the spirit of Satan).
Again, within the very body of the believer (that is the temple of God), there should be no communion between the things of light (things of life become light in men and lead to justification) and the things of darkness (things of death become darkness in men and lead to condemnation).
2 Corinthians 6:14 does not teach that a believer cannot/should not marry an unbeliever. Also, it does not teach that you cannot be employed by an unbeliever or do business with unbelievers. Neither marriage, nor business partnership, nor employment constitutes the yoke of Christ. The Holy Ghost is the yoke of Christ, the Bond of perfection.
A married person becomes one in the flesh with the spouse and not one in the spirit. But either one must be one in spirit with the Lord Jesus Christ being yoked with Him by the Holy Ghost. It is possible to have a husband unequally yoked in his body (that is the temple of God) while the wife is not, or vice versa.
Business partners, employers and employees, unmarried friends are not one in the flesh as is a married couple. Only the Holy Ghost can yoke each of them with the Christ, thus making all who are so yoked one with Christ.
Now, according to the will of God are all godly things and provisions made by the default set of all things of life. Please, note the three bold emphases.
A thing (or things) of life given as a gift from God to you is worked out by the power of God to make a godly provision that is a job opening for you... according to the will of God.
This way, God is your ultimate source and provider from His economy without your input... yourself having been "dead" in Christ Jesus.
Is a specific job opening or even marriage to a specific person the will of God for me? Let us see together, but you decide for yourself!
This is the "universal" and categorical will of God encapsulating His desires for us:
That we have everlasting life - John 6:40
That we have deliverance (this includes healing and freedom from captivities) - Gal 1:4
That we have the salvation of God
That we submit to established authority - 1Pet. 2:13-15
That we are sanctified - 1Thes. 4:3-4
That we are good and accountable stewards of all things of life given us - John 6:38
That we give thanks in every thing
How then saith a virgin that it is God's will for me to marry a particular man? I dunno!
But this I know: God will not usurp the will of man pertaining to a thing of the flesh (marriage is exclusively for the flesh on earth unto a couple becoming one flesh, but there is no marriage in Heaven wherein all are one in spirit with the Lord)... for it is and was from the beginning a man's will to marry a "helper" brought/appointed unto him by God.
God makes the helper, man decides to marry the helper God has given him. I'd rather that virgins (unmarried females) supplicate unto God that He makes them "helpers" first. Then after present them unto unmarried men who decide in themselves to them (helpers) as wives... also that a man prays for God to bring/appoint unto him "helper" that he decides to take as wife. How many unmarried females want to be "helpers" first before being taken as wives; how many unmarried males want to marry just any female instead of a "helper" made by God?
This was the case with Adam/Eve when God made Adam a helper (Eve) and Adam decided to take Eve as wife, saying "This is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh"... the decision to take as "bone of my bone" and "flesh of my flesh" was Adam's in that he so declared. Also was it with Isaac/Rebbeka when God made Rebbeka to "help" Isaac's proxy (and his camels) with water at the well as a sign, and the proxy decided to take Rebbekah as wife for Mr. Isaac.
How then saith a man that it is God's will for me to get a particular job offer? I dunno!
But this I know: It is God's will that a man obtains His gift of all things of eternal life that might be worked out in righteousness to make godly provisions, even a good and enjoyable job. For this reason did our Lord teach in a parable that men should seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness for all these thing (clothing, housing, money, jobs, etc that gentiles seek after) to be added.
I'm sorry it has been a long talk!
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